Who Worked Late & on Weekends (WWLW) Report [Depending on how fussy your Management is]

Diplomacy

Note that the STLC phases mentioned above do not necessarily have to be in the order listed; some phases can sometimes run in parallel. For instance, Test Designing and Test Execution. Interestingly, no matter how well-defined a Software Testing Life Cycle you have in your project or organization, there are chances that you will invariably witness the following widely-popular cycle:

Testing

Cursing

In this type of STLC, you skip phases like design review, test planning, etc – in the hope that the skipping will save you some time and/or cost. [But, it never does and you’ll instead end up swearing! Yes, a lot.]